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MOSCOW, RUSSIA | TASS | The solar flare of the highest class was registered in the Sun on Sunday, the Institute of Applied Geophysics told TASS. “The X1.1 flare with the duration of seventeen minutes was registered on May 25 at 04:52 a.m. Moscow time (01:52 a.m. GMT) in the …

Tampa, United States | AFP | NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which launched earlier this year, has set a new record for becoming the closest human-made object to the Sun, the US space agency announced Monday. “The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles (42.73 million kilometers) from the …

Washington, United States | AFP | Our Sun is much like other stars, and not an anomaly because of its magnetic poles that flip every 11 years, scientists said Thursday. The report in the journal Science aims to lay to rest the controversy over whether our solar system’s star is cyclic, …